This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge – Quiz 154 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 154 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What sport is played with mallets with handles 52 in long, on a field measuring 300 x 160 yards? A) Quoits. B) Croquet. C) Softball. D) Polo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Polo. 2. What is the longest written note still in common use in Western music? A) Breeze. B) Breve. C) Brave. D) Brief. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Breve. 3. WWE, which is controlled by Vince McMahon, is a publicly-traded, privately-controlled integrated media and sports entertainment company. What does "WWE" stand for? A) World Wildlife Exercises. B) World Wide Enterprises. C) World Wrestling Entertainment. D) Wrestling World Entrepreneurs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) World Wrestling Entertainment. 4. What is the common name for peristalsis? A) Sneezing. B) Swallowing. C) Coughing. D) Hiccups. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Swallowing. 5. The first nationally formalised rules for which sport were drawn up by the Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland in 1884, and now has two sets of rules, the other being . administered by the NRA in Great Britain, which was formed in 1943? A) Rounders. B) Petanque. C) Cricket. D) Tennis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rounders. 6. The Greek word for "work" is the derivation of which of these English words? A) Sweat. B) Energy. C) Exhaustion. D) Food intake. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Energy. 7. Who created the character of Horatio Hornblower? A) H Ryder Haggard. B) C S Forester. C) Edgar Rice Burroughs. D) Robert Louis Stephenson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) C S Forester. 8. What did rising, controversial, Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios do to earn code violation warnings and media headlines during Wimbledon 2015? A) Muttered "dirty scum", although he maintained it was not directed at the umpire. B) Threatened to stop play following a disputed line call. C) All of these. D) Smashed his racket, which bounced into the spectators' stands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of these. 9. What is the ratio of hydrogen atoms to oxygen atoms respectively in a molecule of water? A) 8 to 1. B) 1 to 2. C) 3 to 5. D) 2 to 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2 to 1. 10. When Hutu extremists committed genocide in Rwanda in 1994 whom were they intent on killing? A) All French. B) All British. C) All Tutsi and any moderate Hutu. D) Any non-Rwandans. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All Tutsi and any moderate Hutu. 11. Which of these is a supernatural water horse from Celtic folklore that is believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland and Ireland? A) Nessie. B) Kelpie. C) Banshee. D) Collie. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kelpie. 12. The repeating decimal of which number equals the real number 1? A) 1. B) 0.999 . C) 1.0101 . D) 1.0505 . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 0.999 . 13. Ambergris, once commonly used as a fixative in perfumery, is produced in the digestive system of what? A) Hippopotamus. B) Bee. C) Sperm whale. D) Elephant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sperm whale. 14. Why did Michael Gambon step into the role of Dumbledore in the third film in the Harry Potter series in 2004, replacing Richard Harris? A) The new director took the post on condition that he could work with Gambon. B) Increasing ill health made Harris unable to commit to what was becoming a series. C) Harris died. D) Harris was committed to another film. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Harris died. 15. At his retirement in 2012 from One Day International games, who held the record for scoring the most centuries in international cricket, with over 100? A) Sachin Tendulkar. B) Ricky Ponting. C) Mike Denness. D) Daniel Vettori. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sachin Tendulkar. 16. Who was the first woman in space? A) Janis Joplin. B) Svetlana Savitskaya. C) Nadia Comăneci. D) Valentina Tereshkova. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Valentina Tereshkova. 17. The tough fibrous membrane called the dura covers what? A) The brain and spinal cord. B) Liver. C) Heart and lungs. D) Pancreas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The brain and spinal cord. 18. What much-visited destination is near Oświęcim, Poland? A) Białowieża Forest. B) The Zuiderzee. C) Branicki Palace. D) Auschwitz concentration camp. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Auschwitz concentration camp. 19. What does allemansrätten give a person the right to do? A) Vote in a municipal election. B) Roam the Swedish countryside without regard to land ownership. C) Live in Germany. D) Fence off private land. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Roam the Swedish countryside without regard to land ownership. 20. In the first 140 years since the cricket tournaments known as The Ashes began in 1882-3, which side has won the trophy most? A) Pakistan. B) England. C) West Indies. D) Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Australia. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGeneral QuizzesGeneral Knowledge Quiz 1General Knowledge Quiz 2General Knowledge Quiz 3General Knowledge Quiz 4General Knowledge Quiz 5General Knowledge Quiz 6General Knowledge Quiz 7General Knowledge Quiz 8General Knowledge Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books